[Coco] Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[jimcox at miba51.com]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:38:50 -0500 (EST)
  Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, ostro011 wrote:
>
>> 
>> Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I seem to recall 
>>that Marty Goodman
>> was the author of Graphicom, or at least the seller. 
>> Didn't he own
>> Cheshire Cat Software, and didn't they sell Graphicom? 
>> Anyone remember for
>> sure?  It's quite possible I'm confused.
>> 
>> -- Steve --
>
>Marty, who was indeed Cheshire Cat Software, was the 
>seller but not the
>author.  It was written by Peter Ryan, a friend of 
>Marty's who also wrote
>the CoCo Wefax software, both of which Marty wrote about 
>in
>Rainbow.  Peter chose to remain anonymous and let Marty 
>publicize and
>distribute the software.  Unfortunately Peter, a 
>brilliant fellow by
>Marty's account whom I met briefly at the Palo Alto 
>Rainbowfest, died a
>few years ago from AIDS.  Graphicom was written in Forth, 
>BTW, using a
>CoCo version that was never marketed (though not written 
>by Peter).
>
>Art
>
Art:

Maybe I am confusing Wefax with another program that was 
listed in Rainbow.  I believe it is a weather mapping 
program, correct?

Jim